Noah's Ark
Noah's ark, the one thing that saved all life on this earth. Without this gopherwood ship, the earth would be a barren wasteland. Or did it even exist?
There are a few problems with Noah's ark, just a few things that make the whole story hard to swallow.
The Ship
Noah's Ark was 300 cubits long by 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. The Bible's definition of a cubit is "about 18 inches" so the ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high. A rather nice size ship, not huge by today's standards, or even this century's standards. There was another famous ship, named the RMS Titanic, let's take a look at the two.
This is a poorly drawn illustration, but it is to scale.
According to creationists, God created all the animals in the world at once. So the ark had to carry at least two of each, seven of the clean animals. Today there is between 9-10 millions different species of animals today. There should have been more then, due to the extinction of dinosaurs, Sabertooth Tigers, Tasmanian Tigers, and so on.
So giving the ark the benefit of the doubt, I figured that there was 10 million different animals on earth at the time. Then I multiplied it by the number of animals that he was told to put on the ark (7 clean, 2 others) and since the Bible never stated the ratio of clean to unclean animals. I made the capacity tolerance very high.
The RMS Titanic was nearly twice the size of the ark and could only hold 3,547 people. We all know people are a lot smaller than African Elephants, Hippos, and the dinosaurs.
What has happened to man that a farmer some supposed 4,000 years ago could build a ship 28,000 times more efficient than a team of engineers a few decades ago?
The Storm
The 40 days and 40 nights rain. Covered every mountain, killed every life form. What could it take to cover these mountains?
To cover the peak of Mount Saint Helens, a staggering 29,028 feet above sea level (after all it had to be the same height back then, God created everything mature, the only explanation of lower mountains would be the evolution of the earth) it would take rainfall of 363 inches per hour (30 feet 3 inches per hour). Hurricanes have an average rainfall of 7-10 inches per hour, so 363 inches per hour would be less like rains and more like ocean size dumpings of water for 40 days and nights.
Amazingly once again, a farmer can out do a team of modern day engineers at designing a ship, or any structure. If there was a storm like that today every structure known to man would be smashed and destroyed in a fraction of a second. Yet Noah made a boat that could take it for 3,465,000 seconds(960 hours or 40 24 hour days).
Survival in the Brave New World
After 40 days the water the water went away, where to who knows? Noah sent a dove out to check the water levels and it returned with an fresh picked olive branch, the first sign of God's Failure, he didn't kill everything on earth, apparently the olive trees survived.
Once the boat docked and the animals left the boat, Noah sacrificed 5 of each of the clean animals. The bible failed to clear up one simple detail. How did we survive? Aside from Noah's incest, the rest is forgotten about. Somehow the Zebra reproduced faster than the Tigers could prey on them, and if that was the case, the tigers would have died from starvation, that goes for every animal off of the ship... man too. Surely no plant life would withstand the water and erosion of that powerful of a storm, so all herbivore would have surly died of starvation.
The fact that there are any animals on earth now, pretty much destroys the possibility of the ark. Once you destroy the possibility of one part of a source of information, that source is no longer infallible.